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INDEX 



Ac-Zol, ISO, 18.? 



Ad\is()r>' Committee, 11 



Alameda, City of, wharves, 120 



Albatross Surveys, 3.?, 250 



Alder wood, 179 



Alkalinity of sea water, 266 



American Wood-Preservers' Association, 



1, 9 

 Analysis of water, for salinity, 344 



in San Francisco Bay, 266 

 Anatomy of Teredo navalis, 208 



(see also "Morphology") 

 Antioch case, 35, 43 

 Antimony treatments, 181 

 Appendices, 344 

 Aranga wood, 92 

 Arent process, 181, 186 

 Arsenic treatments, 181 

 Asphalt, use on piling, 96 



(see also "Protections") 

 Associated Oil Company wharves, 155 

 Azobe wood, 92, 179 

 Ball, W. C, 4 

 Bankia, 22, 57, 95, 203, 210, 229, 291, 298 



biology of, 291 



boring habit, 293 



breeding season antl haliits, 190, 291 



destruction by, 237 



first appearance, 15, 194 



identification, 205 



occurrence, 268, 292 



rate of growth and boring, 231 



sclacca, characteristics, 205 



species other than setacca. 205, 219, 

 298 

 Bark, protecting effect of, 18, 94 

 Barren oil treatment, 181 

 Barrows, A. L., 163, 247 

 Bartsch, Paul, 194, 246, 294 



process, 181, 185 

 Bateman, E., 5, 163 

 Berkeley, Cit>- of, wharf, 155 

 Beta naphthol treatment, 181 

 Betis wood, 92 

 Bibliography of Biological Section, 388 



on marine borers (Barrows), 163 



Biological Section, 188 



publications, 191 



laboratories, 10, 192 



organization of work, 8, 190 

 Biology ot Teredo navalis, 246 

 Black Point, 247 

 Blake, E. M., 4 

 Blum, H. P., 7, 191 



Board of State Harbor Commissioners, 

 origin, 18 



piers, service records, 160 

 Borer attack, history of, 188 

 iiorers, protection against, see "Protec- 

 tions" 



in rock, 301 



in wood, see "Bankia," "Teredo," and 

 "Limnoria" 

 Boring habit, oi Bankia, 293 



of Limnoria, 319 



of 'Teredo, 222 

 Breeding habits, oi Bankia, 291 



of Limnoria, 329 



of Teredo, 220 

 Breeding seasons of liorers, 190, 284, 291 

 Brown, A. A,, 4, 292 

 Bnuinier, H. J., 5, 135 

 Built-up piles, 103 

 Burd, J. S., 4, 11, 163 

 Caissons, reinforced concrete, 132 

 California-Hawaiian Sugar Company- pier, 



10, 134 

 Carquinez Strait, 1, 28, 247 



salinities in, 249 

 Cast iron piling, 147 

 Cedar piling, 89 

 Cement gun, 129 

 Channel Street sewer, 268, 292 

 Chelnra, 337 

 Chemical conditions in San Francisco 



Bay, 248, 266 

 Chemical investigations, 163 



conclusions drawn from, 176 

 Chemical treatments, 180 

 China Basin, Bankia attack at, 237 



Terminal, 30, 133 

 Chlorine as piling protection, 104, 174 



